Chapter Five Adults ’ Orientation of Children—And Children's Initiative to Pitch In—To Everyday Adult Activities in a Tsotsil Maya Community

Publication date: 2015 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 49 Author(s): Margarita Martínez-Pérez This chapter examines how 2-year-old children attempt to actively participate in adult work in a Mayan community in Chiapas, Mexico, and how adults contribute and accommodate to the contributions. As children enter into activities and adults orient and reorient the activity to direct the children, teaching from expert to novice is generated by children's agency in co-participatory interactions. The chapter enriches the LOPI model by focusing on the structure of participation and communication, social and community organization, and the evaluation that occurs in the activity itself.
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - Category: Child Development Source Type: research